Isaiah

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Chapters in Isaiah

Isaiah 1: Judah's Rebellion and the Offer of Cleansing
Isaiah's vision opens with the LORD's case against Judah, a people more senseless than farm animals and battered by judgment yet still rebelling. God rejects their empty sacrifices, calls for justice for the helpless, offers to wash away deep-stained guilt, and vows to purify Jerusalem while idol-loving rebels burn.
Isaiah 2: Nations Drawn to Zion and Pride Brought Low
Isaiah sees a coming day when the LORD's temple mountain is raised high, the nations come to learn His ways, and war gives way to peace. He then condemns Judah's sorcery, wealth, and idols, announces a day when every proud thing is humbled and God alone is honored, and warns against trusting mere mortals.
Isaiah 3: Judgment on Jerusalem's Leaders and Proud Women
The LORD announces that He will strip Judah of food, water, and every kind of leader, leaving chaos under youthful rulers. He charges the elders with plundering the poor, condemns the haughty women of Zion whose finery will turn to mourning, and pictures the city grieving in the dust.
Isaiah 4: The Branch and the Cleansed Remnant
After war leaves Jerusalem with few men, desperate women seek husbands to remove their shame. Isaiah then promises the LORD's glorious Branch, a holy remnant cleansed by God's judgment, and His sheltering presence over Zion in cloud by day and fire by night.
Isaiah 5: The Song of the Vineyard
Isaiah sings of a vineyard lovingly tended that yields only sour grapes, a picture of Israel and Judah failing to produce justice. Six woes follow against greed, drunken revelry, mockery of God, moral inversion, pride and bribery, and God summons a swift foreign army in judgment.
Isaiah 6: Isaiah's Vision and Commission
In the year King Uzziah dies, Isaiah sees the Lord enthroned in the temple while seraphim proclaim His holiness. Confessing his sin, Isaiah is cleansed by a coal from the altar and volunteers to go, but is sent with a hardening message until the land is ruined and only a holy stump remains.
Isaiah 7: Ahaz and the Immanuel Sign
When Aram and Israel threaten Jerusalem, Isaiah urges King Ahaz to stay calm and trust God, since their plot will fail. Ahaz declines God's offer of a sign, so the Lord gives one: a virgin will bear a son called Immanuel. Isaiah also warns that Assyria will devastate Judah's land.
Isaiah 8: The Flood of Assyria and the Stumbling Stone
Isaiah's newborn son receives a name announcing that Assyria will soon plunder Damascus and Samaria, and Judah is warned that the same empire will sweep over it like a flooding river. The LORD tells Isaiah to fear Him alone and keep His teaching, while those who turn to mediums instead of God's word end in darkness.
Isaiah 9: The Promised Child and Israel's Pride
Light dawns on Galilee, and Isaiah announces a royal child who will be called Mighty God and reign forever on David's throne with justice and peace. The chapter then turns to the northern kingdom, whose pride, misleading leaders and spreading wickedness bring repeated judgment because the people refuse to turn back.
Isaiah 10: Assyria as the Instrument of God's Anger
Isaiah pronounces woe on leaders who oppress the poor, then names Assyria as the instrument God uses to punish His people, though Assyria will be judged for its arrogant boasting. A remnant of Israel will return to God, and the Lord cuts down the advancing Assyrian army like a forest just short of Jerusalem.
Isaiah 11: The Branch from Jesse
A new King will rise from the family line of Jesse, filled with God's Spirit and judging the poor with true justice. His reign brings peace even among wild animals, the nations rally to Him, and the Lord gathers His scattered people from many lands as in a new exodus.
Isaiah 12: A Song of Salvation
A short hymn for the day of rescue promised in the previous chapter. The singer thanks God that His anger has given way to comfort, trusts Him as strength and salvation, and calls God's people to tell all nations of His great deeds.
Isaiah 13: The Oracle Against Babylon
Isaiah announces God's judgment on Babylon, the first of his messages against the nations. The Lord gathers an army, His day of wrath darkens the heavens and humbles the proud, and He stirs up the Medes so that the city is overthrown and left an empty ruin for wild animals.
Isaiah 14: The Fall of Babylon's King
God promises compassion and restoration for Israel, who then sing a taunt over the fallen king of Babylon, a proud ruler who aimed to rise above God but is brought down to the grave. The Lord also swears to break Assyria and warns the Philistines, while Zion remains a refuge for His people.
Isaiah 15: Lament over Moab's Ruin
Isaiah announces sudden disaster on Moab, whose towns are ruined overnight while its people mourn at their shrines. The prophet grieves as refugees flee and the waters fail, and God warns that further judgment will pursue the survivors.
Isaiah 16: Moab's Pride and Plea for Refuge
Moab is urged to send tribute to Zion as its refugees beg for shelter, while a just ruler from David's house is promised. Moab's pride costs it its vineyards and joy, its prayers at its shrines fail, and its glory is to be humbled within three years.
Isaiah 17: Judgment on Damascus and Ephraim
Isaiah foretells the ruin of Damascus and the fading of Israel's northern kingdom, though a small remnant will survive like a few olives left on a tree. Because the people forgot God their Savior their harvests fail, and the raging nations that attack God's people vanish in a single night.
Isaiah 18: A Message to Distant Cush
Isaiah addresses Cush, a distant and powerful land that sends envoys by boat. The LORD calmly watches and will prune the vine just before it ripens, and one day this feared people will bring gifts to the LORD at Mount Zion.
Isaiah 19: Judgment and Blessing for Egypt
The LORD comes against Egypt, stirring civil war, drying up the Nile, and confusing its counselors. Egypt then turns to Him, as cities pledge loyalty, an altar is raised, God sends a deliverer and heals them, and Egypt and Assyria join Israel in worship and blessing.
Isaiah 20: Isaiah's Barefoot Sign
Tied to Assyria's capture of the Philistine city of Ashdod, this chapter tells how the LORD had Isaiah spend three years going stripped and barefoot as a living warning. Assyria will lead Egypt and Cush away as captives, shaming all who trusted them for rescue.
Isaiah 21: Oracles on Babylon, Edom and Arabia
Isaiah sees Elam and Media sent against Babylon and is shaken by the vision; then a lookout hears that Babylon and its idols have fallen. A short word to Edom answers a watchman's question about the night, and Arabia's tribe of Kedar is given one year before its glory ends.
Isaiah 22: Jerusalem's Revelry and the Key of David
Isaiah weeps over Jerusalem, which feasts instead of repenting and trusts its walls and water supply rather than the God who planned its trouble. Proud Shebna is removed, Eliakim receives his office and the key to David's house, an image later applied to Christ, and a firmly fixed peg finally gives way.
Isaiah 23: The Oracle Against Tyre
Isaiah announces the ruin of Tyre, the rich sea-trading city, and calls its ships and partners to mourn. The LORD planned its fall to bring its proud splendor low, and after seventy years of being forgotten Tyre will trade again, with its profits devoted to the LORD for those who serve Him.
Isaiah 24: The LORD Judges the Whole Earth
Isaiah describes the LORD laying waste the whole earth because its people broke His laws and covenant, so that joy ceases and few people remain. Songs of praise rise from distant lands, the powers on high and earthly kings are punished, and the LORD reigns in glory in Zion.
Isaiah 25: A Feast for All Nations and Death Defeated
A song praises God for faithfully carrying out His ancient plans, for turning a fortified city into rubble, and for sheltering the poor from the ruthless. On His mountain He hosts a rich feast for every people, ends death forever, and dries every tear, while proud Moab is brought low.
Isaiah 26: Judah’s Song of Trust and Resurrection Hope
Judah sings of a strong city walled by salvation and of the peace God gives to those who trust Him. The people long for God, confess that their own labor saved no one, and are promised that His dead will rise, then are told to hide briefly while He judges the earth.
Isaiah 27: Leviathan Slain and the LORD’s Vineyard
The LORD defeats Leviathan, the sea monster, and sings over a vineyard He waters and guards, offering peace even to His enemies. Israel is disciplined but not destroyed like her oppressors, and her idols are smashed. At the sound of a great horn, the exiles in Assyria and Egypt return to worship in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 28: Woe to Ephraim and the Tested Cornerstone
Isaiah condemns the proud, drunken leaders of Ephraim and reeling priests and prophets, warning that God will speak through foreign invaders to those who refused rest. Against the scoffing rulers’ pact with death God lays a tested cornerstone in Zion, and a farming parable shows His judgment is wise and measured.
Isaiah 29: Woe to Ariel and Hollow Worship
God announces that He will besiege Jerusalem, called Ariel, yet the nations attacking it will vanish like a dream. He exposes a blind people whose worship is only outward, undoes their wise men and secret plans, and promises a day when the deaf hear, the humble rejoice, and Jacob’s shame ends.
Isaiah 30: Trusting Egypt Instead of the LORD
The LORD condemns Judah’s alliance with Egypt, a useless helper mockingly named Rahab, and a people who silence the prophets. Though they refused safety through repentance and quiet trust, the LORD still longs to show grace, promising guidance, healing, and plenty, and He shatters Assyria while His people sing.
Isaiah 31: Egypt Is Mortal and the LORD Defends Zion
Isaiah warns those who rely on Egypt’s horses and chariots, since the Egyptians are only human and will fall together with those they help. Like a fearless lion and like birds circling above, the LORD will defend Jerusalem; Israel is called to return and abandon idols, and Assyria will fall without any human sword.
Isaiah 32: A Righteous King and the Spirit Poured Out
Isaiah foretells a just king whose rulers protect and refresh the people, and under whom fools lose their undeserved honor. He warns the complacent women of the city that crops are about to fail and the land will lie waste until God sends His Spirit, bringing justice, peace, and security.
Isaiah 33: The LORD Our Judge, Lawgiver, and King
Isaiah announces woe on a treacherous destroyer and records the people's prayer for grace amid a ruined land. The LORD rises to judge, sinners in Zion tremble before His holiness, and the upright are promised safety, a vision of the King, and a forgiven, secure Jerusalem.
Isaiah 34: Judgment on the Nations and Edom
Isaiah summons the nations to hear of the LORD's anger against them, pictured with the heavens rolled away. Edom becomes the chief example, its land made a lasting wasteland inhabited by wild creatures, and readers are told that every word of the LORD's decree will be fulfilled.
Isaiah 35: The Desert Blooms and the Redeemed Return
Isaiah describes the wilderness bursting into bloom as people see God's glory. The fearful are told to take courage because God is coming to save, healing the blind, deaf, lame, and mute, and His redeemed travel a holy highway home to Zion with lasting joy.
Isaiah 36: The Rabshakeh Taunts Jerusalem
After Sennacherib of Assyria takes Judah's fortified towns, his officer the Rabshakeh comes to Jerusalem to demand surrender. He mocks trust in Egypt and in the LORD, calls out his offer to the listeners on the wall, and boasts that no god has stopped Assyria, while the people stay silent.
Isaiah 37: Hezekiah's Prayer and Assyria's Defeat
King Hezekiah mourns, asks Isaiah to pray, and lays Sennacherib's threatening letter before the LORD, praying that all nations will know He alone is God. The LORD rebukes Assyria's pride and promises to defend Jerusalem; His angel strikes the Assyrian camp, and Sennacherib is later killed by his sons.
Isaiah 38: Hezekiah's Illness and Recovery
Isaiah tells the gravely ill King Hezekiah that he will die, but Hezekiah prays and weeps, and the LORD adds fifteen years, turning back the sun's shadow as a sign. Hezekiah later writes a poem recalling his despair and praising God for healing and forgiving him, and Isaiah's fig remedy is noted.
Isaiah 39: Hezekiah Shows Babylon His Treasures
Envoys from Babylon's king visit Hezekiah after his recovery, and he shows them all his wealth and weapons. Isaiah warns that everything will one day be taken to Babylon, along with some of the king's descendants, and Hezekiah accepts the word, relieved that his own reign will stay peaceful.
Isaiah 40: Comfort for God's People
God announces pardon and comfort for Jerusalem, and a voice calls for a road to be readied for the LORD's coming. Human life fades but God's word endures; the coming God rules in power and tends His flock. No idol or nation compares with the tireless Creator, who gives fresh strength to all who hope in Him.
Isaiah 41: God Upholds His Chosen Servant Israel
The LORD calls the nations to court and claims He raised up a conqueror from the east, while terrified idol makers prop up their gods. He assures Israel, His chosen servant and Abraham's offspring, of His help, promises water in the desert, and challenges the idols to foretell the future, declaring them worthless.
Isaiah 42: The Gentle Servant and Blind Israel
The LORD presents His chosen, Spirit-filled Servant, who gently establishes justice for all peoples and is appointed to give sight to the blind and freedom to captives. Distant peoples are called to praise God, while Israel, His own servant, is shown to be blind and deaf under His discipline.
Isaiah 43: Israel Redeemed and Forgiven
God tells Israel not to fear, since He has redeemed them and will gather them from every direction. Calling them His witnesses, He declares that He alone is God and Savior, announces Babylon's fall and a new exodus, then pardons their sins for His own sake while exposing a long record of rebellion.
Isaiah 44: The Living God and Lifeless Idols
God promises to pour out His Spirit on Israel's descendants and declares Himself the eternal and only God. A satire shows a man cooking with half a log and worshiping the other half, and the chapter ends with God forgiving His people and naming Cyrus to rebuild Jerusalem and the temple.
Isaiah 45: Cyrus Anointed and Salvation for All Nations
The LORD commissions the Persian king Cyrus, who does not know Him, to conquer nations and free Israel's exiles for His people's sake. He claims rule over light, darkness, prosperity and disaster, rebukes those who question their Maker, and invites the whole earth to turn to Him, swearing that all will bow.
Isaiah 46: Babylon's Idols and the God Who Carries
Babylon's gods Bel and Nebo must be hauled away as burdens on weary animals, while the LORD has carried Israel from birth and will carry them into old age. He alone foretells the future and fulfills His plan, calling a conqueror from the east and bringing His salvation near to a stubborn people.
Isaiah 47: The Fall of Proud Babylon
Babylon, pictured as a pampered royal daughter, is ordered down from her throne into disgrace. God had handed His people to her, but she treated them without mercy and boasted that she had no equal, so loss and ruin will strike her suddenly, all at once, and her sorcerers and stargazers cannot save her.
Isaiah 48: Stubborn Israel Refined and Sent Out of Babylon
The LORD rebukes Israel for using His name insincerely and reminds them He foretold events so idols would get no credit. For His own name He restrains His anger, refines them through affliction, and sends His chosen ally against Babylon, then calls the exiles to leave joyfully, warning that the wicked have no peace.
Isaiah 49: The Servant as a Light to the Nations
The Servant tells how God called Him before birth to bring Israel back and to carry salvation to every nation. God promises a joyful homecoming, answers Zion's fear of being forgotten with a love more constant than a mother's, and pledges to free captives and fill her with children.
Isaiah 50: The Obedient Servant Who Suffers
God says His people were sent into exile for their own sins, not through any weakness in Him. The Servant then tells of listening to God each morning, enduring beatings and mockery with firm resolve, and trusting God to clear Him; those in darkness are urged to rely on the LORD, and self-reliant people are warned.
Isaiah 51: Comfort for Zion and the Cup Removed
God urges the faithful to remember how He made a nation from Abraham and promises to turn Zion's ruins into a garden. His salvation will outlast heaven and earth, the redeemed will return singing, and the cup of wrath Jerusalem drank is taken from her and given to her oppressors.
Isaiah 52: Zion Awakes and the Servant Is Exalted
Jerusalem is called to rise from captivity, because the LORD will free His people without payment and defend His honor before the nations. Messengers bring Zion news of God's reign, the exiles are told to leave in purity, and the final Servant Song opens with the Servant disfigured yet raised high.
Isaiah 53: The Suffering Servant
Speakers confess that they despised the LORD's Servant and wrongly thought God was striking Him down. Yet He was wounded for their sins, silent before accusers, killed and buried though innocent, and by God's will made an offering for guilt; then He lives on, makes many righteous, and prays for sinners.
Isaiah 54: Barren Zion and the Covenant of Peace
The LORD tells childless Zion to sing and widen her tent, for her children will be many. Her Maker is her husband, His anger lasted only a moment, and like His oath after Noah's flood His peace covenant cannot fail; He promises a jeweled city, children taught by Him, and safety from every weapon.
Isaiah 55: The Free Invitation to Grace
The LORD invites all who thirst to receive satisfying food and drink at no cost and promises an everlasting covenant grounded in His faithful love for David. He urges the wicked to turn back to Him, for He pardons freely and His word always achieves its purpose, and His people will go out in joy as the land is renewed.
Isaiah 56: Foreigners and Eunuchs Welcomed
God calls His people to practice justice because His salvation is near. He promises faithful eunuchs and foreigners who hold to His covenant an honored place in His temple, which will be a place of prayer for every nation, and then condemns Israel's blind, greedy leaders.
Isaiah 57: Idolatry Exposed and Comfort for the Contrite
The righteous die unnoticed, spared from evil, while the LORD exposes a people devoted to idols on the hills. The exalted Holy One promises to dwell with the humble and repentant, to heal the stubborn, and to give peace to the far and the near, but the wicked find no rest.
Isaiah 58: True Fasting and the Sabbath
God tells the prophet to expose a people who seem devout yet oppress workers and quarrel while they fast. The fast He wants is freeing the oppressed and caring for the hungry and homeless, which brings light, guidance and renewal, and He promises joy to those who honor His holy day.
Isaiah 59: Sin Separates and the Redeemer Comes
Isaiah explains that the LORD can still save, but the people’s sins have cut them off from Him, and he exposes their violence, lies, and injustice. The people confess their guilt, and the LORD, finding no one to help, puts on armor and acts alone to save, promising a Redeemer for the repentant and His abiding Spirit.
Isaiah 60: Zion Shines With the LORD’s Glory
Zion is called to rise and shine because the LORD’s glory has dawned on her while darkness covers the nations. Nations, kings, and her scattered children stream to her with gifts and praise, her walls are rebuilt, and the LORD Himself becomes her everlasting light and makes her people righteous.
Isaiah 61: Good News for the Afflicted
The Spirit-anointed one brings good news, freedom, the LORD’s season of favor, and comfort to mourners, words Jesus read in Nazareth and declared fulfilled. God’s people rebuild the ruins, are called priests, receive an everlasting covenant, and rejoice that God has clothed them in salvation and righteousness.
Isaiah 62: Zion’s New Name
The speaker vows to speak out until nations see Zion’s righteousness and the LORD renames her. No longer Forsaken, she becomes Hephzibah and Beulah, His delight and bride; watchmen are posted and God is given no rest in prayer, a highway is prepared for the coming Savior, and her people are named holy and redeemed.
Isaiah 63: The Winepress and a Prayer for Mercy
The LORD appears as a warrior coming from Edom in stained garments, having crushed the nations in judgment like grapes, with no helper beside Him. A prayer then recalls His faithful love in the exodus and Israel’s rebellion against His Spirit, and pleads with God as Father and Redeemer to return to His people.
Isaiah 64: A Plea for God to Come Down
The people's prayer asks the LORD to tear open the sky and descend in power as He did long ago. They confess that sin has made them all unclean, even their best deeds, then appeal to God as their Father and Potter and lay the ruin of Zion and its temple before Him.
Isaiah 65: Judgment, a Remnant, and a New Creation
The LORD, found by outsiders not seeking Him, rebukes a stubborn people who worship idols yet think themselves holy, promising to repay them while sparing a chosen remnant of His servants. He then announces a newly created heaven and earth, with long lives, joyful work, answered prayer, and peace among the animals.
Isaiah 66: The Humble Esteemed and the Nations Gathered
The LORD, whose throne is heaven, values the humble who revere His word over empty sacrifices. Zion suddenly bears a nation and is comforted by God as by a mother. He comes in fiery judgment, gathers the nations to see His glory, and promises His people will endure, while rebels face lasting punishment.